Veteran Sales Executive To Lead New Hospitality Partner Management Team At Darwin Networks
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Darwin Networks, a leading provider of high-speed Internet access and network solutions, recently hired veteran hospitality sales executive Richard Donnan as the Director of Partners for its eastern Hospitality Division.
In his new position, Donnan will create and manage Darwin Networks' new Hospitality Partner Management Team, which is designed to oversee relationships with business partners in this important vertical market.
Donnan brings to Darwin Networks twenty years of senior management experience in hospitality sales with leading technology companies such as NCR, Hotel Information Systems, Spectravision and Philips. Most recently, Donnan worked as director of sales for Wayport, Inc., where he was integral in developing the company's hospitality team and significant hotel agreements.
Donnan has served on numerous state and national hospitality committees and currently serves on the American Hotel Foundation Committee. This past April, the Tampa Bay YMCA recognized him as the 1999 Volunteer of the Year for his many years as a youth volunteer.
Darwin Networks provides high speed Internet access and network solutions to small and medium-sized businesses; office, flex, industrial and retail properties; apartment, condominium and student housing complexes; hotels and telephone companies; using various wireless and wireline technologies. The company has agreements in place and in progress to launch services in approximately 1,200 locations in over 40 states and Canada. The Louisville, Kentucky-based company offers a full complement of marketing and support services, including training, to assist business owners, property managers and their staffs in marketing and implementing these new services.
Additionally, Darwin Networks is the nation's premier provider of public Internet access kiosks. To date, the company has installed hundreds of units throughout the country, in hotels, restaurants, tourist/travel centers, cafes, airports, and more. The company also produces, installs and operates multimedia kiosks designed for retail/eCommerce, interactive information distribution, communications, entertainment, advertising and other uses.
Darwin Networks has corporate offices in Louisville, KY, Seattle, WA and Boston, MA Walnut Creek and San Diego, CA. The company's investors include Broadband Solutions, LLC (led by Chrysalis Ventures, LLC), Paul Allen's Vulcan Ventures, Richland Ventures, River Cities Capital and associates of Moore Capital. For more information about Darwin Networks, please visit